Fatal Accident at Palmerston.

Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1900, Page 3

Fatal Accident at Palmerston.

As the 6.30 a.m. train for Wanganui was proceeding along Main-street on Wednesday morning the body of a mun fearfully mutilated was discovered lying between the rails o£ the Napier line just opposite Messrs Hart and Keeling's establishment. The train ■was stopped and the giiard informed Sergt.-Major Ramsay of the occurrence. On the Sergt.-Major proceeding to the scene of the fatality the body was found as described. The whole of the front portion of the face had been cut up by the wheels of the engine, fhe brains being exposed, the arms we're cut up, both legs broken and the bones protruding from the flesh, while the body itself was completely broken and smashed almost out of human semblance. The rep, mains were picked up and taken to the Empire Hotel stables where they now lie. When searched, a telegram addressed to "Frank Lucinsky" and sent by Mr Richmond, of Feilding, on business matters, was found in the pocket. Subsequently Acting-Detec-tive De Norville and Messrs Topic and Evans identified the body by the clothing as that of Lucinsky. He was, it appears, a resident of Cheltenham, ! where he bad a dairy farm. He leaves " a wife and five children, two of them, a son and daughter, being of mature . years, while the others are young. j It is considered that Lucinsky must ; have been lying in the middle of the rails and that his head was caught by the cow catcher and the body carried along the line for fully twenty yards. In support of this, pieces of the unfortunate man's face, his jaw, teeth, and brains were found scattered along the line for fully the distance indicated. That the body was carried along some distance is evident by the fearful mutilation it had received and it certainly is most peculiar that the driver of the train did not notice any bumping when the accident took place. — Standard. ;